Ash tray



' June 17, 1930. s. D. RUBENSTEIN 1,764,692 7 ASH TRAY .Filed Nov. 1, 1929 j 2 :NVENTOR I Patented June 17, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GUSTAVE D. RUBENSTEIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T INDESTRUOTIBIE PEARL BEAI) MAKERS, INQ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK .A'SI-I TRAY Application filed November The present invention relates to improvements ina smokers ash tray of the type wherein a statuette is mounted on the tray proper to impart to the tray a pleasing and ornamental appearance.

' In contrivances of this type the statuette is either made integral with the tray or is permanently attached thereto. Inasmuch as in these devices the statuette rests upon and extends above the tray, these devices must be packed in individual cartons for shipping purposes, to prevent injury or possible breakage to the statuette.

The main object of the present invention is to overcome this difficulty by detachably mounting the statuette on the tray and to so design the elements that not only will the place of the statuette on the tray be conveniently found but a single screw-bolt will serve as the attaching means.

Another object of the invention is to provide an ash tray of the character described which is simple in construction, durable in use and capable of manufacture on a commercial scale, or in other words one which is not so difiicult to make as to be beyond the reasonable cost of such a contrivance.

With these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the

same consists in the combination, arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and proportion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

' One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which order to more clearly show the construction;

1, 1929. Serial No. 403,991.

and Fig. 3 is a section taken on the plane 83 of Fig. 1. 1 r The improved device consists ofa tray 10 of any suitable configuration and material. The tray is of substantial thickness, as clear- 5 ly appears from Fig. 3 of the drawings, and is provided in its upper face, outside of the ash receiving bowl portion 11, with a pluralityof recesses 12, having a configuration and relative arrangement hereinafter to be described. On the tray is mounted a statuette, representing a human or animal figure and made of any suitable material. In the case illustrated the statuette 13 represents the figure of an elephant, the feet 14 of which are fitted into the recesses 12 above referred to. These recesses are of substantial depth and their configuration and relative position one to another correspondsexactly to that of the feet of the statuette, so that the said feet fit snugly into the said recesses and the statuette is prevented from shifting on the tray'when united with the tray by a single fastening means. This fastening means comprises in the case illustrated in the drawings a screw-bolt 15 which extends through a bore 16 in the tray, said bore passing through one of the recesses 12 in alignment. with a screw-threaded bore 17 in one of the legs 18 of the statuette. The bore 16 is en larged in the bottom portion of the tray, to receive the head 19 of the screw-bolt. The threads of this screw-bolt mesh with those of the bore 17 in the leg 18, so that the statuette is firmly held on the tray. The statuette being thus held down on the tray and the feet thereof being disposed within the recesses 12, it is obvious that the statuette cannot shift on the tray notwithstanding the fact that a single fastening means only is made use of.

It is obvious that any other statuette may be employed without departing from the in vention. In any case the configuration of the recesses 12 and their relative positions must correspond to the configuration of the feet portions of the statuette and their arrangement. a

- In shipping the device, the statuette is detached from the tray so that the entire contrivance can be put up in a package of small compass. The user is in a position to readily assemble the device by simply placing the feet portions of the statuette into the recesses in the tray and screwing home the screwbolt. The recesses, obviously, determine the exact position of the statuette on the tray.

WhatI claim is V 1. The combination with a base provided in its upper face with a plurality of'recesses, of a statuette having feet snugly fitted into said recesses, and a single fastening means passing through said base into one of the" feet of said statuette. y

2. The combination with a base provided in its upper face with a plurality ofrecesses, of a statuette having feet snugly fitted into said recesses, said base being provided with a bore in alignment with one of said recesses and extending from the latter to the bottom portion of the base, said statuette being provided with a screw-threaded bore in one of its feet portions in alignment with said first-mentioned bore, and a screw-bolt extended through said basebore into said foot-bore, the threads of said screw-bolt meshing with those of said foot-bore.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 11th v day of October, A. D. 1929.

GUSTAVE D. RUBENSTEIN. 

